Just bought a half of beef. No pork this year. Beef was $2.85/lb aged hanging weight, grass fed. Looking to buy a heritage hog next year if things work out right.

Who else is buying their farm meat right now and at what price?

Pike River we buy at the county fair. Used to be the company did but after adding partners cut it from budget. We got a whole beef but sold a quarter. Also, got a pen(2) hogs. Won't share price as it was a record sale. Sure due to covid and meat crazyness. Family getting smaller as kids move out. Not sure how we will eat it all! Usually a family member or friend asks us to buy a share of thiers. We are in farm country though. We have a 100 acre farm and usually share in feed cost so no telling what actual cost is. We have money so peace of mind where it comes from!

Will add just three years ago bought two at fair (standing weight?) for 1.85 a pound. Times are a changing!

My sister raised 2 Heritage hogs 2 year ago and it was the toughest pork we ever ate.

County fair meat sale is in a few weeks. Neighbor kid has 2 steers going. I'll probably go in with someone on one.

Bought whole beef finished with grain 3x and pork once. Won't ever do it again. Worst meat I ever had. Wound up giving it away to poor people who appreciated it

Beef around here average 2.50 - 3.00, pork 3.00 - 4.00 a pound hanging. Cut, wrap and curing extra. We cut our own so I try to source live animals that I can finish to our taste. Feeder pigs average 150 - 200 a head. Beef no average since the local sale barn closed shop. Some people are low end of reasonable but most think they have gold standing on the hoof up to 5.60 live weight.



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Butcher our own. Beef get a little grain as the wife spoils here beef. Five week finish on grain mix from her father, the old recipe it is special to her and I. Butchering a hog in a month. Figure 2-3 venison, two toms from season, some squirrel, partridge, were pretty good. Buy some chicken though.

if you can find a Red Waddle pig , it will likely be the best pork you have ever tasted.

I traded a bunch of wood cutting for half of one many years ago.

We were looking at buying 3- feeders this year but with COVID things changed. Our local Piggly Wiggly has been having pork specials for a month now , so when you can buy pork steaks for $1.39 and other cuts reasonable we have stocked up on the pork we need through the winter. We butchered 3 ewes and ground everything into hamburger. These were smaller ewes but we still got 150-160 lbs. of burger meat. Mixed in with our whole fryers and a few fish we should be OK for the winter.

Bryce

Seriously?

Local meat for the win.

$2.65 lb hang is what I paid last time. Not sure if price will be raised. I'll be ready for my next half around Christmas.

Put down a deposit for a lamb recently. Should get that in Sept. Just trying something different. $3.75 lb

I raise or hunt nearly 100% of the meat we consume. The only meat we buy is pork, and I typically only do that when I'm wanting to make sausage or bacon. I trade chicken, eggs, rabbits, vegetables, & fruit to my neighbor for beef. I raise on average 600 rabbits & 300 chickens annually. Whatever I don't sell for pets, breeding, & show stock I butcher and sell. I sell processed rabbits for $5-6/lb, and processed chickens for $3/lb. I'm working on building a pen for a couple of hogs right now.

Yesterday at Kroger, I ran by the meat counter to check prices. They didn't have much in stock, but hamburger was $4.50/lb, pork shoulders $2.69/lb (on sale), chicken leg quarters .99/lb, center cut pork chops $3.99/lb. It's cheaper to raise my own meat!

Thats a 1.72 on the hoof for the beef, a little steep but your supporting local.

Yes a little steep, I know I could get cheaper elsewhere. But its excellent beef and I can watch them graze just down the road from my home. The mega corps don't get my $$$ and know if SHTF I could count on them for my main source of food which is very important to me.